German painter and draftsman. He worked in Dinkelsbühl, Nördlingen, Cannstatt, and Konstanz, where he is last documented. In 1474 he is mentioned as a member of a workshop cooperative with Friedrich Herlin in Nördlingen, with whom he developed close stylistic affinities. His artistic identity depends largely on a panel painting in Bern depicting St Wendelin with the donatrix Barbara Strauss of Nördlingen that is signed FW and dated 1467.
St Albertus Magnus (c. 1200-1280) was a Dominican scholastic, bishop, Doctor of the Church, natural scientist, and philosopher. His greatest scholarly achievement was the introduction of Aristotelian thought to the West through the systematic paraphrasing of the entire corpus, which he began in 1449, assisted by his student Thomas Aquinas,
The panel has traditionally been attributed to Friedrich Walther. However, it was probably executed in the workshop (or artistic circle) of Friedrich Walther. The painting represents several incidents from the saint’s life, including a miraculous resuscitation of a dead child.
This painting depicts St Wendelin with the donatrix Barbara Strauss of N�rdlingen. It is signed FW and dated 1467.
St Wendelin (554-617) was the son of a Scottish king; after a piously spent youth he secretly left his home on a pilgrimage to Rome. On his way back he settled as a hermit in Westricht in the Diocese of Trier. He is the patron saint of country people and herdsmen and is still venerated in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
